Here are two more letters of the second alphabet. I'll be irregular because it's a bit long to work. Furthermore I do not work the letters in alphabetical order, but by grouping those with similar paths (waves, straight lines, circles ...) to work longer the same gestures rather than going through the same motions in all directions ..
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

I’ve been
thinking about the second alphabet. This will be the peace alphabet.

I’m
working on the idea of intervals of peace/silence interspersed between all the
noise and chatter of daily life. I’ve had an idea for the structure and how to
represent the noise.

I decided
I wanted the letters to feel quite delicate, almost ephemeral. So, after much
experimentation/messing around, I’ve chosen to use handmade (but not by me)
paper, iridescent ink and organza ribbons.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Ce texte est disponible en français et en anglais. / This text is translate in english and in french.

The english translate is not write by a dictionnary but by me, so I can write with a lot of faults. I am sorry for that, but I am French.... I hope you still understand my text. If you can't, write a comment!

Hello everyone,
after finish my first alphabet, I make a break, but I am already here! I don't finish my first alphabet because I need buy some material, but i will do it.
For my second alphabet (I don't begin it...), I have somes ideas and I propose to explain it here.
I just think about my first alphabet, and I found that is not very simple to found my reasoning. So I will try to improve this point.

I asked myself what represents the peace in the world. For me, the peace depends of the countries, that is my first idea, use the different language and alphabet for my letters. Then the peace is a something who is hard to find, that requieres a fight, too often violent, be it for what is called "inner peace", finally that is accept imself, or for the peace among countries. All this made me think about taht happened in the world, news as we love say.... Well, news, this is the relation of North Korea and other countries, the revolution into Africa, but that is also the fight of so many people (and peoples!) for survive, not even to live... As a result, my second idea is taht my calligraphy is a kind of "fight", of revolt, provocation between the differents elements, ... Finally, who is the peace make me think about Nelson Mandela, after all my ideas! Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa (the history subject of the 2013 french examen in Economy and Social), of the Rainbow Nation. I thing to that because I studied the South Africa and saw reportages about this countrie. Then, for the calligraphy, the notion of Rainbow enjoyed me. That is my last idea, the colours, the vivacity of rainbow, his mystery, his sciences and his treasure!

Thereby, my second alphabet will be a multi-alphabets / multi language, a violent fight, a tribute to all poeple who fight, and it will be with vivacity, colours and hope!

My second alphabet started well! Hopefully this will continue but life has a way of getting involved and messing with my plans. I have thought of several different ideas for the final presentation. None of the ideas are exactly what I want. Still I have a little bit of time yet.

I finally started my second alphabet ... A few months ago I had this idea, but I think the fear of difficulty was a bit "slow" ... Finally, I got into it, but I think with the number of hours needed to write this letter, I will take time to finish the whole alphabet ... ;)

Monday, August 12, 2013

Here is my finished Peace Book...........at last! Once again I enjoyed making it so much and I am happy to have another book to add to my collection. This time I tried a different method to assemble the book. It is an attempt at stitching the spine together. I find I will look up the instructions on how to do something but half way through I'll just start to improvise, I think I'm not good with "how to instructions" in general. After I started I realize that my book paper could have been a better quality, but I am restricted to what my local craft shop has to offer. Must make a note to self to stock up on quality paper when next I visit a big city.

P.S. When I finished the letters for this book I made some collages from the extra letters I had done. I love when work generates or inspires new/more work. You can see what I did over at littlebitofblue.